Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk Van Otterloo Collection

Over the past 35 years, husband-and-wife collector duo Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo have acquired a collection of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, representing a selection of work by Dutch Golden Age artists. This volume compiles some two dozen works from the van Otterloo Collection, which was donated by the couple to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2017, as one of the most generous gifts in the museum's history. Included among these paintings is one of the world's best-preserved Rembrandts, previously housed in a private collection: his 1632 piece Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh, which depicts its elderly sitter in dark robes and a delicate white millstone collar. Works by other Dutch Masters such as Cuyp, Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and JanBrueghel the Elder round out the collection with a variety of pictorial subjects, from genre scenes to seascapes to still lifes. Accompanied by biographical and art historical information to provide context for the artists and their work, the series of reproductions assembled in this volume invites readers to immerse themselves in the careful composition and beautiful light quality of this era's paintings.